Zeitlinien 27, ink on ganpi paper, 67 x 52 cm, 2015
Maribel Mas
Drawing and lithography, 2015
Maribel Mas
Caracas 1967
Resident in Barcelona since 2000 and moved to
Leipzig in 2014.
Since 2005 in her workshop Taller Esquina, worked as
printmaker and teacher in stone lithography.
Had collaborated with museums and art schools in
courses and projects related to printmaking techniques
as Aoya Museum in Japan, Picasso Museum, Massana
and Llotja Art Schools, UB Barcelona University, Arts
Libris book fair and the Paris École des Beaux-Arts.
In Caracas, between 1985 and 1989 studied graphic
design in the IDC, etching and additive techniques in the
TAGA, Graphic Atelier of Caracas. From 1990 to 1992
participated in drawing workshops in the Kuadra Creativa
and Caracas National Art Gallery.
In 1998 studied painting and silkscreen in Lorenzo Di
Medici Institute of Art in Florence, Italy.
Between 2001 and 2005 had specialized in stone
lithography at the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts In
Barcelona. In those years had studied also ceramic
arts in Industrial School of Barcelona and in the Bisbal
Ceramic School.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005, Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona,
Spain.
Andoh Gallery, Tottori, Japan.
Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2008, Enlaces, Museum Sant Pol de Mar, Spain.
(catalogue)
Enlaces, Museum Molì Paperer de Capellades,
Spain.
Enlaces, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2012, Variation, lithography series 2011-2012,
Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2013, Zeitlinien, drawings and prints, Taller Esquina,
Barcelona, Spain.
A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2014, Zeitlinien, Tinta Invisible editions,
Barcelona, Spain.
Andoh Gallery, Tottori, Japan.
Seisou, Osaka, Japan.
2015, A Cuadros Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
AWARDS
1994, First Prize Theobaldo de Nigris, Graphic Art Award,
Latin America Graphic Industry
Association, Mexico.
2004, First Prize Aoya Museum, Graphic works on Inshu
Washi paper, Japan.
2006, First Prize Arches Papers Award,
Paris, France.
2013, Selection 20th International Print Triennial,
Kracow, Poland.
COLLABORATIONS
1998, Silkscreen series, Art Studio Fuji, Florence Italy.
2002, Lithographic workshop, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan.
2006, Etching series, ediciones Tinta Invisible,
Barcelona, Spain.
2008, Technical displays, Museum Molì Paperer de
Capellades, Spain.
Lithographic workshop Museum Sant Pol de
Mar, Spain.
2010, Lithographic workshop Massana Art School
and Facultad de Bellas Artes, UB University,
Spain.
2011, Japanese woodcarving courses and technical
displays, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
2012 -15, Woodcarving and photopolymer series,
Carpe plumbum, Spinnerei,
Leipzig, Germany.
2013, Cliché Verre project, Atelier für Radierung,
Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.
2014, 5+5 Contemporary Works on Paper,
China and Spain museums.
2015, Zeitlinien drawings, Social Impact Lab,
Leipzig, Germany.
Grafik Barcelona-Leipzig, Círculo del Arte,
Barcelona, Spain.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1992, Salón CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela.
1994, VII Exfilve, Philatelic Exhibition, Caracas
Contemporary Art Museum, Venezuela.
(catalogue)
1998, Tito Salas Contemporary Art Gallery,
Caracas, Venezuela. (catalogue and artist book))
2000, Latin American Illustrators selection, 27th IBBY
Congress, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
(catalogue)
2002, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan. (catalogue)
Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museum Molì
Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
2004, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan. (catalogue)
Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museum Molì
Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
4 from Llotja, Quiosk Gallery, Tremp, Spain.
2006, Graphic Works on Arches Papers, Escola Llotja
Avignon section, Barcelona, Spain.
Calcografía Nacional Graphic Art Contest,
Zamora, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Museo de
la Moneda, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue)
Honda Painting Awards, La Garriga, travelling to
Girona, LLeida and Tarragona. (catalogue)
2009, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Cervantes
Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
2010, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Centre de
Artesania de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
(catalogue)
2012, La Galería, Barcelona, Spain.
Barcelona European Art, Brocken Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan.
20th International Print Triennial, Kracov, Poland.
(catalogue)
2013, 20th International Print Triennial, Oldemburg,
Germany. (catalogue)
Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Poland.
(catalogue)
Arts Libris, Taller Esquina stand, Santa Mónica
Art Center, Barcelona, Spain.
Carpe-Plumbum Symposion (artist book):
BBK in Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany.
Cliché verre Reloaded (catalogue):
Spinnerei Archiv Massiv, Leipzig, Germany.
Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Germany.
2014, Arts Libris, Taller Esquina stand, Santa Mónica
Art Center, Barcelona, Spain.
5+5 Contemporary Works on Paper,
Setba Zona d’Art, Barcelona, Spain.
AB Gallery, Granollers, Spain.
La Sala, Vilanova, Spain.
Yi Shanghai Art Museum, China. (catalogue)
Yonghe Art Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China.
Síntesi, FAD Tallers Oberts Barcelona, Spain.
2015, Grafik Barcelona-Leipzig, Círculo del Arte,
Barcelona, Spain.
Körper-Raum, with S. Hoch and U. Haring,
Hoch+Partner Gallery, Tapetenwerk, Germany.
BBK in Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany.
Atractive Prints vol. 3, Shibatacho Gallery,
Osaka, Japan.
AEG Art Center, Thaler Originalgrafik printmakers.
Nuremberg, Germany.
Thaler Originalgrafik printmakers, Spinnerei
Leipzig, Germany.
BBK Symposien printmakers, Museum für
Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany.
In the case of engraving and lithography, and particularly
for Maribel Mas work, reading key probably lies in the
passion for the use of different printing processes, the
selection of paper and the good combination with each
ink: to serve the artist and his creation in the best way.
Whether stone lithography on aluminum plates, woodcut,
intaglio: it is needed a time to find the balance between
the work of the artist and the selected way of expression.
In addition, etching and lithography, offer a very special
relationship with the moment of creation. Kant sees
nothing higher than the beauty of nature and the artist
ultimate try is to approach the nature... For Bergson, the need for “Elan Vital” explains the evolution and
development of living entities, and pushing the thinking
to arts, this approach can then lead to a certain
“momentum of arts”, necessary for creativity.
In the case of printing processes, in a way similarly
to photography, there is this unique moment where
the artist discover the work. In the case of painting or
sculpture, the passage of the blank canvas, or the stone
block is a slow transition, with the particular kinetic of
each artist, who decides alone the completion. Bonnard,
true perfectionist, could not avoid to modify his paintings,
even after they were bought or exhibited in a museum...
The engraving or lithography appears in a certain
moment of “revelation.” This “thaumaturgic’ side gives
these techniques a special dimension, somewhere
between hard work and magic. It must be the
combination of artistic design (poiesis), with the craft
project and with expert practice (praxis). The work
appears to the artist, and can not be changed
anymore, except for the “enhancement”, reinforcing the
“uniqueness” of the work. The piece of art appears in the
same way in the eyes of the art lover, who discovers the
work completed.
The workshop of Maribel Mas in Barcelona since
2005, “Taller Esquina”, weaves constantly new links,
discovering areas to explore. Thus, the workshop
invests in education through partnerships in Leipzig
with printmaker workshops and projects in Barcelona
with the Picasso Museum, the Museu Moli Paperer
Capellades, UB Barcelona University, Llotja and Massana
Art Schools.
Finally, beyond the aesthetic relationship with the
guest artists of the workshop, Taller Esquina has
developed technical partnerships, including the japanese
papermakers of Ganpi, Mitsumata Kouzo developed
in their family workshops in Aoya, and in the project
Kanyain with Tatsuya Mitani, through courses and
information on paper and japanese woodcut. For 10
years, this collaboration between these two cultures can
share another approach to the paper, its production
techniques, and its specificities.
Pascal Ronfard, Elan d’Arts, Paris.
http://www.elandarts.com/
The gesture distinguish Maribel Mas. Sometimes a red
soft trace, a bloods echo. Decision and impetus other
times. Here are reunited beauty and pain. Maribel Mas is
a traditional lithography master, who distillates from the
stones a ineffable subtleness.
Alex Mitrani, art critic and curator, Barcelona
The lithographic traces that Maribel Mas left on the paper
are restrained and subdued, as if the artist purposefully
prevents the figure to escape from the crevasses of the
paper and the lithographic plate.
泡泡, Pao Pao, Yonghe Art Exhibition Hall, Beijing
The work of Maribel Mas repeatedly investigates the
fascination and significance of traditional printmaking
techniques in the digital age. A meticulous illustrator and
a graphic artist with a penchant for experimentation, her
specialty and passion are lines. These, to her, are not
contours but have a quality all of their own.
Maribel Mas is obviously well aware of the creative
energy of repetition, a cardinal feature of the conceptual
avant-garde. The artist interrupts the regularity of her
serial structure, because, as she says, “random is an
inestimable source of possibilities”.
Susanne Altmann, Archiv Massiv, Spinnerei, Leipzig
http://www.radierung-leipzig.de
Maribel Mas
WEB SITE
www.maribelmas.com
CONTACT
Info@maribelmas.com
+49 034126699507
VIDEOS
Variation 2: Lithography series
https://vimeo.com/channels/486460/97949369
5+5: Contemporary Works on Paper
https://vimeo.com/channels/486460/55746579
Guest in Taller Esquina: Joaquim Chancho
https://vimeo.com/channels/486460/97922179
GALLERIES
Spain:
Galería a Cuadros, Madrid
http://www.a-cuadros.com/artistas/artista/307
Círculo del Arte, Barcelona
http://www.circulodïlarte.com/es/autor/mas/es
France:
Elan d’Arts, Paris
http://www.elandarts.com/maribel-mas-cdc14.html
http://www.elandarts.com/taller-esquina-un-atelier-autravail-cdc19.html
Germany:
Thaler Originalgraphic
https://www.thaler-originalgrafik.de/produkt-kategorie/
kuenstler/maribel-mas/
Japan:
Andoh Gallery, Tottori
http://g-ando.com/sakuhin_2f/2014/1002.html
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Grabado y Edición, 48th Autumn edition
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First Award, Aoya Museum, Totori, Japan, 2002 Exhibition: Prints on Japanese Paper
Solo exhibition at Andoh Gallery, Totori, Japan, 2005
Solo exhibition at Andoh Gallery, Totori, Japan, 2005. Article by Arnal Ballester
Interview wiith the Tottory Province Governor. Solo exhibition at Andoh Gallery, Totori, Japan, 2005
Article in the Kreuzer Magazine Leipzig 2012 Leipzig Spinnerei http://www.radierung-leipzig.de/details/radierungen-sieben
Article in the magazine Grabado y Edición, 48th Autumn edition http://www.grabadoyedicion.com/demo Password: m4g4zi1n3